Republic of Intellect : The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature / / Bryan Waterman
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| Autore: |
Waterman Bryan <1970->
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| Titolo: |
Republic of Intellect : The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature / / Bryan Waterman
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2007 |
| ©2007 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (343 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 974.7/03 |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - 1783-1850 - History and criticism |
| American literature - Societies, etc - History - 18th century | |
| Fraternal organizations - New York (State) - New York - History - 18th century | |
| Intellectuals - New York (State) - New York | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Intellectual life 1783-1865 |
| New York (N.Y.) History 1775-1865 Biography | |
| New York (N.Y.) Intellectual life 18th century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. "There exists in this city, a small association of men"; PART ONE. ASSOCIATIONS; Prelude. Pictures at an Exhibition; One. "The Town is the only place for rational beings": Sociability, Science, and the Literature of Intimate Inquiry; Two. Dangerous Associations: The Illuminati Conspiracy Scare as a Crisis of Public Intellectual Authority; Three. Unrestrained Conversation and the "Understanding of Woman": Radicalism, Feminism, and the Challenge of Polite Society; PART TWO. INDUSTRIES OF KNOWLEDGE |
| Prelude. James Kent, Legal Knowledge, and the Politics of PrintFour. The Public Is in the House: William Dunlap's Park Theatre and the Making of American Audiences; Five. "Here was fresh matter for discourse": Yellow Fever, the Medical Repository, and Arthur Mervyn; Coda. The End of the American Enlightenment: Samuel Miller's A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century; Appendix. Friendly Club Membership and Nineteenth-Century New York City Historiography; Abbreviations; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; Illustrations | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Republic of Intellect |
| ISBN: | 1-4214-0389-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910524882403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.